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	Graciosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Graciosa Island, also known as White Island, belongs to the Central Group of the Archipelago of the Azores.
		The landscape of Graciosa (meaning Gracious) mixes the green of the trees with the white of the villages and isolated houses.
		Graciosa Island was discovered in May 2, 1450 Its first settler was from Montemor-o-Velho and his name was Vasco Gil Sodré.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graciosa_Island (329 words)

	Azores Island of Graciosa information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		In spite of the efforts made by Vasco Gil Sodré to become the island's donee and the fact that he built a custom-house on it, the captaincy of the northern part was given to Pedro Correia da Cunha, married to the sister of Cristopher Columbus's wife, and the southern part to Duarte de Barreto.
		On Graciosa it is the dome that is moved to accompany the direction of the wind, using for the purpose a long wooden pole that almost touches the ground.
		The Festivals of the Holy Ghost are a symbol of the devotion of the Azoreans and an expression of a cult with medieval roots.
	www.azores.com /azores/graciosa.asp (2336 words)

	Azores - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mountain of Pico on Pico Island, at 2,351 m in altitude, is the highest in all of Portugal.
		The islands are an autonomous region of Portugal.
		The islands were formed during the Tertiary period, in the Alpine phase.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azores (969 words)

	AZORES express
		The northwestern coast of the island is both rugged and charming, with a cliff-strewn shore, and heated thermal pools.
		Because of the island's agricultural past, most towns are nearer to the cliffs of the central plain than to the sea.
		All along the coastal rim of the island, two foot walls shield the grapes from the sea and elements, to produce a unique vintage with a hint of lava.
	www.azores-express.com /islands.aspx (2544 words)

	Graciosa Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The 23-square-mile (60-square-kilometre) island reaches a height of 1,338 feet (408 m) at the summit of Enxôfre Caldera, a volcanic crater.
		It is the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the North Atlantic.
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037583?tocId=9037583 (745 words)

	Portugal Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The largest island, São Miguel, is most notable for its crater lakes, while the regional capital, Ponta Delgada has many fine 17th and 18th century Baroque churches.
		Graciosa Island is a peaceful retreat with windmills, manor houses and 16th century churches.
		Tiny Corvo Island to the north west is the blown top of a huge marine volcano known as Monte Gordo.
	www.portugaltravelguide.com /en/azores.htm (325 words)

	History - Azores Tourist Guide - Destinazores
		Although the exact date is not known it is widely believed that the island of Graciosa was discovered around 1450 by sailors from the neighbouring island of Terceira that lies approximately 31 maritime miles to the south-west.
		The island of Flores (flowers) was initially called St. Thomas and St. Iria but due to the abundance of yellow flowers (cubres) which covered the island the new name was considered to be more appropriate.
		The distances that separated it from the other islands in addition to the lack of inter island transportation for the export of pastel to Flanders forced him to abandon the island and settle in São Jorge.
	www.destinazores.com /history.php (2222 words)

	Azores Islands
		Its content reveals that there were seven islands and that Henry was given the right to settle them.26 The next known document is a Majorcan map of the same year which had seven islands and the date of discovery was recorded as 1432.27 There have been differing versions concerning the year-date of the discovery.
		The islands are essentially the tips of a large undersea mountain range, referred to as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which stretches the entire length of the Atlantic Ocean, from north to south.
		The other islands have the "viola dos dois coracoes" which is a guitar that has two heart- shaped holes instead of one the large round whole in the middle of the body of the instrument.
	wwwlibrary.csustan.edu /bsantos/azores.html (7104 words)

	Accommodation in the islands of the Azores - Portugal
		The centre of the island is a nature reserve to preserve the original flora and fauna of the islands.
		In the centre of the island is a volcanic crater, about 1 mile in diameter, which has the luxuriant vegetation that used to cover the islands.
		The main attraction of the island is a green crater lake dotted with nine islets.
	www.inn-azores.com (441 words)

	The Island of Graciosa, The Azores
		Graciosa - Vineyards sprout between the walls of fl stone.
		This is the universe of the small island of Graciosa, framed by the white, frothing sea.
		Discovering Graciosa means taking a stroll through the checked pattern of green vines bordered by "corral" walls of hardened lava.
	www.eurosun.com /graciosa.htm (290 words)

	Graciosa
		Graciosa is in my personal opinion the most beautiful of all the 9 islands.
		Graciosa has a mild climate, and a very gentle nature with smooth hills, which can be seen from a long distance.
		A town that in the past was the most "important" town on the island.
	www.azores.dk /Egraciosa.htm (471 words)

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		The dry and hot climate of the island, the nature of the grounds (rocks) are not propitious to the development of human life.
		Sao Anton is a rocky island that stretches from the South to the North.
		The island of Pico is dominated by a Volcano: Pico (peak).
	www.chez.com /bluewatersailing/bodyFrameContent/archive/eNorAtlant.html (3333 words)

	Graciosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Known as the white island, Graciosa (or 'Gracious') has a gentle rolling landscape and the lowest rainfall of the central group.
		This idyllic island is dotted with traditional whitewashed houses and Flemish style windmills and has the lowest average altitude of all the islands.
		The island has kept its rural charm and still important to the island's economy is the production of wine, evident from the patchwork of vineyards bordered by the low fl walls of hardened lava which cover the island.
	www.azoreschoice.com /graciosa.htm (183 words)

	Azores Guide - Portugal - Resorts & Excursions - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
		GRACIOSA: This island of vineyards and windmills contains the geological curiosity of Furna de Enxofre, a small, warm sulphur lake concealed in a grotto beneath a crater, access to which is via an 80m (270ft) spiral staircase.
		TERCEIRA: A gently rural island, Terceira is known as the ‘Lilac Isle’ because of the distinctive colouring of its sunsets.
		The island is renowned for its vineyards that grow the famous verdelho wine of Pico.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/azo/azo150.asp (426 words)

	Molosserworld's Căo de Fila da Terceira
		The name Terceira means The Third, because the island was the third island of the Azores to be discoverd by the Portuguese.
		The Azores, as the point of Europe that is placed farest from the mainland, and closest to the new colonies in America, became a rendezvous for the Spanish treasure fleet on their voyages home from the West Indies.
		The breed continued to live as a farmdog on Terceira Island, kept alive by the few devoted breeders, even if the breed was declared extinct in the 1970's by the Regional Agricultural Governement.
	www.moloss.com /001/breed/c/c008 (1773 words)

	Scuba Diving Adventure Travel
		The island of La Graciosa is in the Atlantic Ocean on the northeastern side of the Canary Islands.
		La Graciosa belongs geologically to an assembly of small islands emerged off the sea in the North of Lanzarote, known as "Archipielago Chinijo" and is also composed by the islands of Alegranza and Clear Mountain and the east Roque islands and Roque of the west.
		La Caleta del Sebo is the capital of the island that counts on 500 inhabitants mainly dedicated to fishing, with white houses and streets of sand.
	www.2adventure.com /watersports-adventure.htm (444 words)

	Canary Islands Official Site
		In the Canaries there are currently three Marine reserves: ‘Graciosa’ Island and the smaller unpopulated isles to the north of Lanzarote, ‘La Restinga’ or ‘Mar de las Calmas’ in El Hierro and the Island of La Palma.
		Several years ago, the islands’ public institutions asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing (the ministry responsible for the categorisation of marine reserves) to include the area known as 'El Cabrón', in the last municipality of Agüimes in Gran Canaria.
		The oldest of the Archipelago's marine reserves, is ‘La Graciosa’ decreed a reserve in 1995.
	www.canarias.org /eng/natural/res_marina.html (146 words)

	AZORES - SÃO JORGE
		The island of São Jorge consists of a large single elongated volcano and the small cones in the middle of the island have resulted from recent volcanic eruptions.
		On the coast the steep cliffs which drop to the sea extend onto unusual basalt platforms level with the sea, these fajas as they are known are the remains of eroded cliff faces that have collapsed.
		This walk is along the central part of the island leading to the highest point on the island (Pico da Esperança, 1053 m).
	www.portugalwalks.com /tour19.htm (386 words)

	History of Lanzarote XV century
		When Juan de Bethencourt arrived to Lanzarote, the island was ruled by Guadarfia, son of Guanarame and the queen Ico.
		In the middle of August a small boat appeared near to La Graciosa, the one, in which the accomplices of Bertin de Berneval had esceped, demonstrating the news, that they had shipwrecked at the shores of Marocco.
		In 1477 this decision about the Islands was taken: Diego de Herrera and his wife became a big amount of money and the title of Count and Countess of La Gomera.
	www.webdelanzarote.com /1400e.htm (2172 words)

	Welcome to Club La Santa - Excursions
		In the south of the island, it is possible to ride horses.
		The course is built so it matches the Northern wind, which the island has more than 320 days a year, it helps you to make some of the longest drives you will ever hit.
		We are going to play a beautiful 18 hole course of very high standard, with fast greens and good fairways, but maybe what impresses the most is the overall scenery of a course surrounded by villas and mountain and the ocean as a backdrop.
	www.clublasanta.dk /Default.aspx?ID=25 (1368 words)

	azorenames
		In the 15th Century, some branches of the Mendoa family were among the first settlers of the Azores, and Graciosa Island in particular.
		After spending time on the islands of Faial, Flores, and Terceira, he settled in the town of Topo on the southeastern end of So Jorge Island.
		The name came to the Island of Terceira in the 15th Century with a woman named Mecia de Andrade Machado, who was reportedly the first woman to give birth in the Azores - on a boat off the coast of Terceira.
	www.ptreyeslight.com /azores1/azorenames.html (1218 words)

	Azores - Holiday Azores Islands
		IThe Island of Gracioca has a surface area of 61 km2 and is the least humid island of the archipelago.
		It was given the nickname of the white island due to the delicate landscape and the names given to certain places including 'Pedras Brancas' or White Stones, 'Serra Branca' or White Mountainside, and 'Barro Branco' or White Clay.
		Santa Maria Island is the easternmost island of the Azores Archipelago.
	www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/europe/portugal/azores/azores.html (1050 words)

	Engelsk versjon
		We were greeted by swimming turtles and dolphins as we approached the islands.
		The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic island situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 1500 km from the European coast and 3900 km from the North American coast.
		All the islands outside the Venezuelan coast were very nice, but “El Gran Rock", the largest island on Los Roques, is the prettiest little place we have seen in all of the Caribbean.
	home.online.no /~arnegur/vilde/brev/engelsk_rapport.htm (4066 words)

	Historic Nantucket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		the crow flies, Flores is the nearest island of the Azores to Nantucket.
		Murray, a native of Graciosa, another island in the Azores.
		island in the Azores, and in their absence were represented in the settlement of the will by
	www.nha.org /history/hn/HNoldmill.htm (2092 words)

	The Voyage
		The island is surrounded by several reefs, among which is noticed that of the Dovecote, so called because the sea birds make their nests there in the spring.
		In the summer the beaches of these islands are covered with fish drying in the sun, and in the winter by white bears which feed on the scraps forgotten by the fishermen.
		After a two-week layover, we left the island of Saint Pierre, and the ship heading south reached the latitude of the coasts of Maryland and Virginia, where we were becalmed.
	titan.iwu.edu /~matthews/voyage.html (1186 words)

	Edit Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Terceira Island is a Portuguese island in the Azores Archipelago, in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.
		Pico (Ilha do Pico) is an island of the Azores noted for its eponymous volcano, its "peak," the highest mountain of Portugal.The island is 17.5 km south of São Jorge (Ilha de São Jorge) and just 7 km west of Fayal (Ilha do Faial).
		It is 42 km long, has a maximum width of 15 km and an area of 447 km² making the second largest of the Azores islands.
	www.wannasurf.com /spot/Europe/Azores/central_group/feedback (246 words)

	Localización de Puerto Calero
		Declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993, great efforts are made on the island to conserve its natural heritage and maintain the quality of its environment.
		The rivers that have left the incandescent lava were modifying the morphology of the island until the last eruption of the island, which happened in 1824 when the Tinguaton Volcano started its activity.
		Lobos is a small island located between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura which can be enjoyed throughout the year, in several seasons.
	www.puertocalero.com /eng/lanzarote.htm (593 words)

	Graciosa - Portuguese Genealogist Master List
		They moved back to Graciosa in 1914, and, in 1915, they returned definitely to Brazil, where they died a few years later.
		She was born in Graciosa on 1 Nov 1879 and had 3 sisters(Marcia, Isabelle, and Marion) and 3 brothers(Manuel, Francis, and Joseph).
		Mary Isabel Ramos married Domingo Correia De Mello (who was born on Graciosa in 1851) in 1876 in Half Moon Bay, California.
	www.dholmes.com /master-list/azores/graciosa.html (1661 words)

	University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Lowell History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The remaining islands in the chain are Corvo, Graciosa, Sao Jorge, Fayal, Pico, Terceira, Sao Miguel and the tiny, uninhabited Formigas.
		Although persons of Portuguese ancestry have come to Lowell from Continental Portugal, Cape Verde Islands, Angola, and Brazil, the majority of Portuguese immigrants to Greater Lowell are from Madeira and the Azores, with an especially large concentration from the island of Graciosa.
		These island chains are referred to as Insular Portugal because residents of these islands live somewhat in isolation, insulated to a degree from the rest of their country and the world.
	library.uml.edu /clh/Portu/Portu1.Html (437 words)

	Restinga, Graciosa Island
		Research is to be conducted on fieldtrips, taking advantage of local facilities (harbour, nautical and diving clubs, fish auction warehouses, etc.).
		The University facilities at Faial Island are located 40 nm away, and can be accessed through vessel operations.
		The island is served by regular flights from other islands in the archipelago.
	www.horta.uac.pt /scubazores/Graciosa/rgi_temp1.htm (197 words)

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